Vice Quotes

Far be it from me to denigrate Senator McCain's advice on vice presidential nominees.

As far as I'm concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.

My grandmother had a Miss Margaret's School of Dance to teach tap and ballet to kids, but I never studied it. I was raised a Mormon and they're dancing fools. It's the only vice they have - dancing.

Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.

I never did drugs and I can't really drink because I have zero tolerance for alcohol, so my vice became women. I was never faithful to most of them.

When law becomes despotic, morals are relaxed, and vice versa.

I'm thankful for Sarah Palin's vice presidential bid, which taught us that Alaska is not in a box off the coast of California.

Heaven and hell suppose two distinct species of men, the good and the bad. But the greatest part of mankind float betwixt vice and virtue.

Suppose something would happen to the president, who would be in charge? The Vice President. Joe Biden? You have got to be kidding today when you say the Taliban's not our enemy.

No exile at the South Pole or on the summit of Mont Blanc separates us more effectively from others than the practice of a hidden vice.

Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools.

There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have their altars and their religion.

Every life is march from innocence, through temptation, to virtue or vice.

You can learn as much about the history from reading about the present as you can vice versa, that is learning about the present through history, which is what I do for a living.

I started at Pillsbury as a manager in one of their analysis functions, then worked my way up the corporate ladder to become vice president. Moving to Burger King was an important moment in my career.

For me, drawing generates thinking and vice versa.

The U.S. army confirmed that it gave a lucrative fire fighting contract in Iraq to the firm once run by the Vice President Dick Cheney without any competitive bidding. When asked if this could be conceived as Cheney's friends profiting from the war, the spokesman said 'Yes.'

The tongue may be employed about, and made to serve all the purposes of vice, in tempting and deceiving, in perjury and injustice.

A am a great friend of public amusements, they keep people from vice.

This is the essential evil of vice, that it debases man.

He that has energy enough to root out a vice should go further, and try to plant a virtue in its place.

A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.

Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice; it whitens only the hair.

I'm the only American alive or dead who presided unhappily over the removal of a vice president and a president.

Democracy means that anyone can grow up to be president, and anyone who doesn't grow up can be vice president.

By rendering the labor of one, the property of the other, they cherish pride, luxury, and vanity on one side; on the other, vice and servility, or hatred and revolt.

Food is my thing, I do not smoke or drink, so food is my vice.

Were there no desire there would be no virtue, and because one man desires what another does not, who shall say whether the child of his desire be Vice or Virtue?

Mission accomplished? The mission in Iraq, as laid out by President Bush and Vice President Cheney, has failed.

As his vice president for eight years, I learned more from Ronald Reagan than from anyone I encountered in all my years of public life.